How Do You Spend Your (Actually Sick) Sick Days?

Yesterday I was home sick. That sounds odd because I work from home so I'm always here, but I'm not usually spending the day in my pajamas in bed watching TV (I swear). The problem: My stomach hurt like hell and I felt like I was beaten with a bat. The stomachache came in waves and usually swelled up just when I thought I might be able to eat something. My coping mechanism:

I watched How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and two episodes of Mad Men, which Nick and I had netflixed to watch together (sorry, babe!).

*At one point I trudged downstairs and made one of Alex's organic mac-n-cheese boxes but it wasn't very good and made my stomach feel worse. So I watched more TV. Ratatouille and Sydney White to be exact...*I have to be honest: I enjoy a good sick day. The ones when you feel like enough crap to not leave your bed but you're not so sick that you're vomiting or writhing around in extreme pain. The stomach thing was a bummer because I would have liked to eat something (when I was home sick in my NYC apt., I could order takeout that got delivered to my door, which was only a few paces from my bed...). And Nick was taking care of Alex so he couldn't really take care of me like he used to. And I now have a ton of work to catch up on.... But I do think that lying in bed for the majority of the day—something I never, ever, ever do—was good for me and my battery is a little recharged. And thankfully I'm feeling a lot better today.